Career
He began his career as a student at the University of Delaware. He then took a job as sports director at WILM-Department of Administration and Management in Wilmington, Delaware. Mees returned to Delaware in 1992 when he announced the Blue Hens" America East Championship for from the field house at Delaware.
After six years in Wilmington and one year in Tallahassee, Florida, Mees was hired by as one of their first on-air personalities for the network"s launch on September 7, 1979.
In 2005, he was inducted into the Delaware Sports Museum and Hall of Fame. Mees was a lead anchor on SportsCenter from 1979 to 1987 when he took on play-by-play duties for National Hockey League games on later lost the National Hockey League contract to SportsChannel America and Mees returned full-time to SportsCenter.
When the National Hockey League returned to in 1992-1993, Mees worked National Hockey League games during the season and hosted SportsCenter in the off-season. Mees was also the powerful guiding voice of National Collegiate Athletic Association Ice Hockey on, and was a forceful advocate to help the growth of the Frozen Four (National Collegiate Athletic Association Hockey"s championship tournament) into its national status today.
Other sports Mees called for included college basketball, college football, and Major League Baseball.
He also anchored the network"s coverage of the United States Football League in the 1980s. By the 15th anniversary of, Mees was one of three, along with Chris Berman and Bob Ley, original SportsCenter anchors still with the network. On August 14, 1996, Mees, who did not know how to swim, drowned in a neighbor"s swimming pool.
They later retracted that account, saying that they did not know how Mees ended up in the pool and that Gabrielle had not been in lieutenant